about this team
The Merchandising team creates and executes transformative global product strategies that ensure we have the right assortment in the right place at the right time to fulfill our guests' unmet needs to deepen our guest relationships, grow our brand and deliver on our long-term enterprise goals. We possess deep awareness and intuition of global marketplace dynamics and regional guest needs and use this knowledge to identify opportunities to maximize guest demand.
qualifications
- Share Regional insights (guest, products, market trends) with Global Merchandising, informing product strategies and regional style needs
- In collaboration with the Manager, develop Regional merchandising strategies and omni channel approach for the season (department and class) for their business categories
- Develop Regional pricing product architecture, as informed by Global strategy
- Create product assortment that reflects brand consistency and regional relevance, maximizing profitability and sales across product class, key items and channels
- Manage Class assortment and clustering, ensuring delivery against capacity targets and guest profiles
- Identify fast turn style needs to round out regional assortment needs
- Collaborate with Planning to execute seasonal regional buys against global product and financial goals
- Create Visual assortment view for region
- Prepare and present decks for Buy Reviews (incl. strategies, attributing, investments, flow, etc.)
- Validate buy accuracy, resolving MOQ issues and partnering with Global teams to ensure Buy Ready issues are solved.
- Complete sizing tasks, selecting comparable styles and sizing packages
- Throughout each buy cycle partner with VM, Digital and Store Planning to inform and execute against initiatives and regional strategies.
- Prior to and in season, identify changes to targeted in-store date and recommend options to maximize flow
- Support in Open-to-Buy conversations and align with Planning on Class targets
- Review business each week/month/season, delivering recaps and actions based on insights and inventory composition, including exit strategies
- Acknowledge the presence of choice in every moment and take personal responsibility for your life.
- Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovate to achieve great results.
- Communicate with honesty and kindness and create the space for others to do the same.
- Lead with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
- Foster connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
- Integrate fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn't take yourself too seriously.
Authorization to work in Canada is required for this role.
- Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans
- Paid time off
- Savings and retirement plan matching
- Generous employee discount
- Fitness & yoga classes
- Parenthood top-up
- Extensive catalog of development course offerings
- People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few)
workplace arrangement
This role is classified as In-Person under our SSC Workplace Policy:
In-Person
In-person collaboration and connection is important to our culture. Work is performed onsite, minimum 4 days per week.